Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme carrier sadly deficient in smarts.
Charles StrossWhile writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration.
Charles StrossWe're currently living with a generation of established novelists who are embarrassingly out of date with respect to social networking, internet skills, and so on.
Charles Stross